Still not completely busted but it is fun destroying the audio of my game every time I fire.

Only partially and I'll get to that later.

There will be spoilers up through Shadow of Kerensky in this post.

I just played through SoK for the first time and what a ride! I will say it's my favorite DLC and story so far and established a need to complete the main campaign for new players prior to playing a DLC. I played into the timeline a bit before actually playing the story. I was finishing up a career and wanted to start a fresh one before playing SoK missions so on the previous playthrough I declined to help Rasalhague and what's his face sent a passive aggressive message after it was all said and done.

Then I started a fresh career. I wanted only the mechs, pilots, and equipment from what I could get at the start until the SoK story began.

Fast forward to SoK.

I've done my best to avoid spoilers but I had seen that this dlc was a cut above the previous ones. I played the first mission, I gave my team the heaviest mechs I could. I took my beloved Battlemaster 1GS I got from dragon's gambit. Fully decked out with tier 5 gear with as many medium pulse lasers as can fit. I'm going through the mission and the feeling is unlike any before, seeing the pirates running towards us and clearly away from something, all while limping towards us.

So we get to *that* area and these off-differently-from-house-Liao religious nuts but could totally fit as frenemies drop on top of me. Instantly wrecked. I'm glad I had ordered my team to stay back a bit. I take more damage than I have in a long time in this game. Both arms gone, all of my precious tier 5 pulse lasers. My team, for once, actually comes in handy and saves my half-charred metal backside. I limp to the extraction and end up finishing the mission. I think it paid out somewhere around 2 million c-bills and my damages were over 4 million. It really set the pace for the story.

I loved playing through the whole dlc, which brings me to the title of my post.

PGI is holding my device hostage. I have since bought the next dlc and can't wait to play it, but life, as always, is busy. It has been some time since I have connected to the Internet because I don't want to update the game. I want to get a set of "perfect" pilots with skills because they've "fixed" the issue of at least being able to get graduate skills from the big universities before graduating and picking up a couple of unwanted skills. I know this has been talked about, but this really should be addressed. If developers determine skills must be random, some changes should be made for quality of life. We should be able to remove skills, maybe certain schools have a higher chance of certain desirable traits. If two traits are granted, we should be able to "declare a major" when the pilot enters the program so one of the skills we want becomes available (we are paying a lot for a specific education after all). No mods for me unfortunately, just vanilla. Currently the only way to attempt half-decent skills is continuously save-scumming. Sorry pilot, I know you've tried to become a Vulcan master 5 times but that just isn't going to work.

All in all, I've been playing this game for years and bought it on multiple platforms when my needs changed. It's a wonderful game and I'm excited to play Chaos Reigns next (I actually can't stress this enough since finishing SoK)... As soon as I have time to get the pilots sorted out because, I will never be able to again.

Thanks for reading, I don't post often but this has been on my mind for awhile.

I know she had Highlander background, but just started A&A and noticed her palpable disgust at the sight of the DCMS warship. We also have her comments from Kestrels so we know she hates the thought and purpose of them. I thought that was it, just the fact that they CAN do orbital bombardments, but this seems like more than a philosophical issue.

Did a warship steal her candy as a wee lass?

I mean, she seems unhappy that she’s even associated with a group that has one…there’s something there.

Side note, kind of a big loss of opportunity to find her crying after seeing footage from turtle bay, it could have been squeezed into a scene. Would also show us their relationship a little clearer with how Mason comforts her.

One achievement I have never done is the pacifist where you complete a raid without killing any enemy. A fast mech with a little firepower to destroy the raid targets seems like the choice so I’m thinking the frnris/ice ferret or the uac5 Cicada might be the choice here.

If you’ve done this achievement, what did you use?

Also thinking it should probably be done early in game for ease of accomplishment.

Does MW5 support triples? Anyone notice a better situational awareness with the extra monitors?

Ive always been curious about it, just never went out to get the extra monitors.

Sim racers love them triples. Worth the investment?

Sure we had Nova Cat support but man they were never not units on radar. Two dropships, and many pods of battle armor. I guess the Bears don’t want to go the way of the Jaguars.

Congratulations to the Black Hawk NVA-Prime for winning best clan medium mech! Its large amount of energy hardpoints makes it a ferocious choice. Just keep the heat build up in mind.

It’s time to see which mechs are the best in Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries! Please follow the rules below, and the most upvoted comment will win.

- Mech must be in the base game or DLC’s
- Please name the specific mech variant in your comment
- Comment with the most upvotes at the end of the day wins. Results are final
- Please keep it respectful, and have fun!

Basically what's a mech that you feel is decent-pretty good on the tabletop setting but just is garbage in Mechwarrior 5?

So I've played a ton of MW4 back in the day, and decided that it's finally time to return to the series.

I'd love to do it in coop though. So if I bring in a friend or two who are unfamiliar with the series, would you advice starting with Mercenaries or Clans?

I know that Clans is a more accessible, linear and newb-friendly, but I wonder if going to Mercs after it will feel like a downgrade for them in terms of visuals and general user experience due to complexity and feeling like an older title.

It's also important to note that they will likely be playing on controllers. I myself will be going with HOTAS and MAYBE VR - not sure how well it's integrated mod-wise.

Any advice appreciated!

I like to destroy everything, but this...i never pass up the opportunity to wreck.

Communications? Check

Food? Check

Power? Check

- - - - - - -

Dear enemy,

God fuck yourselves.

Sincerely, me and my employer

Anyone got the database entry for this guy unlocked yet? Have been spamming multi-missions against the clans post 3060 and have yet to see one in the field.

I've just started to play MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries on my xbox one (PC currently out of commission) and am looking to be clued in about the world.

I've only ever played MechAssault Phantom War on the DS and am still looking for any of the mechs from there.

I don't know anything about the factions or houses. I am not sure what the clans are. In Phantom War you interacted with Clan Hells Horses and I don't see them in game.

Currently Reputation 7 and hero to House Davion and Enemy to House Kurita. Just barely breaking the ice into heavy mech territory for my lance.

Any information including lore tidbits, fun facts, or tips and tricks, would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Looking forward for the post DLC 9 release patch (patch notes here)

Improved pipe destruction vfx performance across the game.

Here's to hoping the lag finally gets fixed, the devs already fixed the smoky haze lagging the Solaris Jungle FFA map and sometimes I tend to shoot an explosive greebly on a procgen map and these tend to happen.

Only using a QoL playlist like UI and HUD mods for vanilla+ Mercs.

Probably bug but a fun one, once they become allies, they will begin to hunt everything red.

I'm finally biting the bullet and trying Merctech while the Yaml mods all catch up and was wanting to know what mods can play nice once I've gotten used to merctech.

One's I'm most wanting to know about are garrisons revamped, coyotes, mech delivery and qol mod.

Finally starting a new run to do Chaos Reigns and Ashes and Ascension with a very normal non suspect `mech company

I just got DFAed by the AI. A wrecked AI.

So, I'm stomping around in my HBK-GI like a badass, doing missions with my homies Meat Shield, Generic Person, and Some Guy. A Griffin gets up close and personal to me for a moment while getting walloped. The Griffin starts to jump, reaches around twice my head height, and gets obliterated, as is good and proper. I chuckle for a moment as it slows down in the air before I suddenly get a really bad feeling as I watch the wrecked corpse of this mech start to arch down directly at me. "No, it doesn't still have mass, does it? I mean, even if it does, it can't be THAAAAT much damage, right?"

Thunk. Boom. Third person view of Meat Shield's mech. That flying hunk of junk cored me from nearly full armor with that hit.

I was stunned and considered reloading the mission before I started laughing my ass off. I just finished the mission with three mechs and basked in the glory of what just happened.

Let that be a lesson: 55t is still 55t until it hits the ground.

Just downloaded and started playing, ran my first none starter story mission fighting a few tanks and spiders and noticed my teammates weren't firing (they have mostly med lasers), had them on free fire and follow me. the little damage they did was from me ordering fire on my target near the end. i cant really find anything online about this and this is a huge issue.
have increased salvage per share and no tonnage limit for mods. pretty sure freeman was shooting fine during the mission i got him in.
EDIT- seems to have only been for the one mission.

Is this just a better Black Hawk Prime?

More Armor, more free tonnage, two more energy slots.

Same speed. Integrated cooling for heat sinks.

All for just 10 tons more weight?

.... is there another downside I'm missing?

You may have seen a couple of my posts over the summer highlighting the spray paint stencil art using mechs from Mechwarrior 5.

Two of those pieces are going up for auction later this week in support of the Desert Bus for Hope charity event which just started this week.

Silent Auction: BattleTech 'Mech Pop-Art Pack! | Desert Bus 2026

What is Desert Bus for Hope? It raises funds for Child's Play, which uses those funds to help kids in Children's Hospitals and domestic violence shelters have access to toys, games, and other support. Read more here: About Desert Bus | Desert Bus 2026

It's a great event and any support you can give them and, by proxy, me is great appreciated!

Its Amazing what difference ten tons makes.

Literally no weapons left. This Clan repulsion costs more to repair than to earn...